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There is a fast food chain in China based on Californian beef noodle soup. It isn’t exactly Pho, but no avocado to be seen.

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They serve Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Obvious reasons why they opted for California branding instead.

> They serve Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Obvious reasons why they opted for California branding instead.

How depressingly very China of them, what are Hong Kong noodles called: 1 country 1 system illegally annexed under extreme violence and duress noodles?

Keep in mind that this chain is > 20 years old (was there in 2002 when I studied at PKU). There is a lot of Taiwan food in the mainland these days that isn't labelled covertly.

I was at PKU around that time too, ate at the shop in Haidian book city a couple times. Apparently they rebranded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Lee_(restaurant)

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